[Experience of Astrakhan Center for Occupational Diseases]. / Opyt raboty Astrakhanskogo profpatologicheskogo tsentra.

Occupational health service in Astrakhan was founded in 1920-s with studies of local pathology traced to microtraumatism and hands dermatitis on food industry enterprises, excessive ultraviolet insolation in agricultural workers. Afterwards special attention was focused on respiratory diseases, influence of climate factors, toxic chemicals and allergens, physical strain on humans. Occupational health service improvement was promoted with creation of Regional Center for Occupational Diseases in 1974. The main result of the Center activities is that advanced forms of first diagnosed occupational diseases are nearly absent in recent years.

[Characteristics of glycolytic enzymes during biostimulation of reparative osteogenesis]. / Kharakteristika fermentov glikoliza pri biostimuliatsii reparativnogo osteogeneza.

Content of hexokinase, pyruvate kinase and lactate dehydrogenase was studied in rat callus, formed in presence of commercially available preparations of placental and normal serum albumin. Total activity of all these enzymes was not similar at different stages of healing; the enzymatic activity was closely related to morpho-functional state of cellular structures in repairing zone and was dependent on their maturation. Especially pronounced changes in glycolytic enzymes activity occurred at the period of maximal proliferative activity of osteogenic cells. Placental albumin was shown to exhibit the greater stimulating effect on reparative osteogenesis as compared with the protein from blood serum.